Beautiful layout. When the coal train stopped for the conductor to throw the switch, I almost expected a miniature figure to climb down and throw that switch.😁
Awesome. I'm a former police officer. I worked from 7pm to 7am . I became friends with some coal miners and some csx engineers. When I didn't have anything going on I would go and watch them load the coal trains. They would let me sit up with them in the little house. This brought back so many memories. I would always help csx when they would have problems. Thanks for the video.
@@iatif1995 that's because before they didn't have much in the way of emd tooling for making the models but now with the mth tooling they have emd things so i am thinking it won't be long till they release something good like a ace
Like Pennsylvania Railfan said, they don’t have much EMD tooling. However, now that they have acquired Fox Valley Models, that may change very soon, as they are already making Scaletrains SD70ACes in N scale using Fox Valley tooling.
That really is fantastic, especially with the closed loop to keep stop the need of operators to transport the coal to the hoppers. Did anyone else see just black video near the end? @12:35
No, my pc played it fine. That's a shame to because he demonstrated emptying all the hoppers using the operating scratch built Rotary Dumper. lol, ya, I know. I'm an ass. lol 🤣
Since 'fugitive dust' has become an issue over the last decade or so, flood loaders have been fitted with a spray system to apply a water based polymer coating, to envelope the top layer and try to keep the dust under control. The kicker is that the coating wears off and must be reapplied periodically. The system would require a tank and plumbing; it could be attached to the backside of the loader's drop chute. I've seen both new loaders constructed with the spray included in the design and retrofitted to older builds. This is so realistic, it'd be great to keep it 'new as today' current. Loved the video, thanks for putting it up!
I just love the realism of your layout! My early years of employment I was a brakeman for Southern Pacific. My dad was an executive officer. Based in San Francisco I had the opportunity to do a lot more, and see a lot more than most. He was in charge of the communications department. Assistant General superintendent system of the railroad. It was his department, and staff under him who created the company we knew as Sprint. Your attention to detail the second to none. Great job!
That's really nice. I especially like the spring creaking noise under the coal tower. For many years I was on the other end of trains like that, unloading coal trains at Kingston Fossil Plant in Kingston, TN. Good job! Greg in TN :)
I have the 7293. I know their models but the photography makes them almost real. Impressive coal loader. Very enjoyable video. I just added dcc and sound to two tunnel motors today. I can't get enough of the hobby. 😁👍!
Over the last year, I've been converting the power for the coal trains to ESU decoders. I also use live loads and I couldn't get the slow speed needed for loading with the previous decoders. Their motor control is very configurable and the sound was a surprising benefit. I find it greatly adds to the realism and in helping to create the illusion. Good job on the loader and dumper! Thanks for sharing with us!
I love this 👍👍 loading the coal “for real “ just adds so much more fun to the layout I think I might have to try a build something like this for my layout thank you 👍👍👍
This editing is so awesome, I love all the sounds you added, really brings the video to life. Great visual and auditory storytelling, excellent work, cant wait to see more!
I have O gauge because HO didn’t have sounds and all the cool stuff when I was born. Sometimes I with I had HO because you just can’t do all this cool stuff when the trains are a lot bigger. This is amazing tho I could play around with these all day and never get bored
Great video! I was not too far from Lombard Hobbies at the Midwest Train Show in Wheaton today. I'm an O scale guy, but I grew up HO. Gonna have to check this place out.
Love the videos. Such a fun layout to watch operate. Although I love the close-up "realism" - an occasional wide shot would be nice for reference. Thanks for making this series!
Definitely want to do some cool coal live loads when I get a layout of my own (still a ways out from that stage), but love to see the ideas and how it’s done
Amazingly realistic layout. Your coal loading/unloading operations are fantastic to watch. As if running trains wasn't fun enough, I can't imagine your excitement once the coal handling feature was mastered.
NSmodeler24, I absolutely love your layout. The detail and scenery is outstanding and the videos always seem so lifelike. I am a huge train enthusiast and I am starting to look into a possible layout of my own in the future. I just wanted to know what are the best skills to learn and/or have for a great layout like yours? Detailing, electrical work, scenery, space, etc. I love you videos and look forward to the next one 👍
One of the coal co. I worked for, also had their own tipple and train load out on the property. Though I worked the deep mine, we often had to stop at the main office, to gossip like old women and pick up our coal bonuses 😁. The load out was directly at the end of the office. I had some buddies that worked at the plant and loaded trains. I would go up in the load out if one of them happened to be up there. A few times I got to load some cars. It's not as easy as I had always thought. Even with a staging bin with digital scales. You had to glance at the sugg load wt on each car, and be ready to charge the staging bin with that much weight, while you were loading the current car. All while the CSX conductor was sitting behind you babysitting his train. If you didn't uniformly load the car or you overflowed one end and spilled coal, they were very unhappy. If you underweighted cars, the coal co wasn't happy. It's stressful and aggravating, glad it wasn't my job, but experienced operators made it look so easy. But it was fun too try, and a nice view of the train. This was at the Jupiter Coal co. in Boone Co. WV, ran bye the late Chris Cline, a hell of a man and coal operator Getting ready to tear down my N scale Chessie➡️CSX layout. And rebuild with a lot of inspiration from NS Modelers layout and operations, his layout is incredible.
When you weather the locomotives, don't forget to power the locomotives wheels 180 degrees so that the other half of the wheels are not shiny and missing the weathering.
Josh...so amazing you seem to have a lot knowledge about the railroad..ever thought about working for Norfolk Southern.....I live about a mile from the calumet yard here in chicago....it's a nice yard.....103rd st bridge goes over the yard.....great video as always....
@@nsmodeler24 Now the fun begins. Clinicals are the best part of med school. Model railroading is a great stress reliever for medical doctors. Also helps keep up your fine motor skills for any surgical procedures you might do. Keep up the good work. Doc Tom
@NSmodeler24 awesome video of the loading of the coal train keep up the good work and I enjoyed watching your videos even if my arms are hurting me too much
That closed loop system is genius! I was wondering about how you went about getting it back and forth. I wasn’t familiar enough with your layout to know the unloading happened above. I may have to steal this general idea if I ever get the privilege of designing a layout for myself. I’ll go ahead and say I’ve been very impressed with the overall production quality of your videos and of the layout itself. You and your father can be very proud of what you have achieved. Keep it up!
Hiya... an excellent video... what does the mechanism look like that allows the coal to drop and what happened at 12:35 when the screen went dark for a few seconds.? I would also like to know in more detail how you made this as well... keep up the good work
I'm definitely planning on building something like this for my future layout. Also you should consider a tutorial on how you make custom sound files for decoders, that could probably come in incredibly handy for some of use wanting to model some oddball locomotives out there.
